GNU bug report logs - #24649
24.5; Why no standard error for "Trailing garbage following expression"?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:04:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed, patch

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; Why no standard error for "Trailing garbage following
 expression"?
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 18:03:04 +0000 (UTC)

Shouldn't this error be a standard error?  If not a new standard error,
shouldn't it at least use one of the existing standard errors, such as
`scan-error' or `invalid-read-syntax'?

Otherwise, how to easily handle this error (e.g., to tell the user to
correct the input being read and then read again)?

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-04-11 on LEG570
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/usr --host=i686-pc-mingw32'
This bug report was last modified 5 years and 271 days ago.

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